I might not be able to use the word "hope," but I could certainly use the word "optimism." I'm very optimistic. I… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“Perhaps you will know how to speak this language--perhaps it is a language we have forgotten in its present form. Perhaps you… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Every so often something shatters like ice and we are in the river of our existence. We are aware. — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“We stayed away from the fact of Lark's existence, or anything to do with our actual thoughts.” — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“Why now that he's sober and thoughtful, and living as a good man, does he get in the worst trouble of his… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
All through my life I never did believe in human measurement. Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“Neither life, nor angels, nor principalities nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, not height, nor depth, nor any other… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
It's impossible to write about Native life without humor-that's how people maintain sanity. — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Can you stop your mother from singing to you? Who would do such a thing? — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“Other freshmen were already moving into their dormitory rooms when we arrived, with their parents helping haul. I saw boxes of paperbacks, stereo equipment,… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
My father is my biggest literary influence. Recently, I've been looking through his letters. He was in the National Guard when I was a… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Looking at the shape of the world, I see how we're in a time where women are the subject of hatred, fear, and we… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
She had always been a reader… but now she was obsessed. Since her discovery of the book hoard downstairs from her job, she’d been… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Time was rushing around me like water around a big wet rock. The only difference is, I was not so durable as stones. Very… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
The greatest wisdom doesn't know itself. The richest plan is not to have one. — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“Delphine began to read with a mad attention when she wanted to talk to Clarisse. She saw that in her life there was a… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
